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So, I have gotten this idea from somewhere that we should lay down a nice bottle of age-worthy wine to enjoy with the kid when he turns 19 (legal age here in Nova Scotia).  The challenge is: 1) Not spending the kid's college fund on the wine. 2) Finding a great representation of the 2013 vintage (either Northern or Southern Hemisphere). 3) Trying to foresee if the kid will actually even be remotely interested in drinking a stupid bottle of old wine with his lame parents (if they even use the term lame in 19 years). Regardless, we are trying to figure out which wine might to the trick.  First or second growth Bordeaux or Burgundy don't match point 1 so they are out.  Given what we have found out about the harvest in the Southern Hemisphere, it looks really good.  Maybe really good Argentinean Malbec or Aussie Cab Sauv or Shiraz? The Northern Hemisphere is a few weeks away from being in full harvest mode.  But, there are early indications of good things...

This guy is just plain cool...a la Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World.  We should all try to be this debonair when talking about wine: Now we really want a glass of Paso Robles Sauvignon Blanc....sigh. There is actually a whole YouTube Channel talking about different grapes called PasoRoblesWine .  We may need to watch more. Keep on tasting! Chris & Shannon

A while back we started drinking and liking Pinotage from South Africa.  It is an earthy wine that tends to have coffee and chocolate tendencies in the nose and the palate.  Of the many, many types of wines out there Pinotage tends to have a tell-tale flavour profile that we can usually pick out of a crowd.  Then comes along this wine....Shannon smelled it to confirm my thoughts on this wine. We were provided this wine from Two Oceans  which is a Shiraz but has all the makings of a Pinotage.  At slightly over $12 this is a true value wine. This is a medium bodied wine which is slightly on the thinner side of the spectrum in the glass.  Fairly dark red, but definitely not a thick wine.  If you said it was Aussie Shiraz we wouldn't be surprised. The nose is where the Pinotage notes start coming to the forefront.  The coffee notes hit you right away and make us feel like this is not a Shiraz at all.  There is some fruit for sure but...